Alan N. Hoffman Investment Management was founded in 1995.

Alan Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management and former Director of the MBA Program at Bentley University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his Masters of Business (1978) and Doctorate of Business Administration (1982) from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Dr. Hoffman is also a former Visiting Professor of Global Strategy at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. He is co-author of the college textbook, "Strategic Management and Business Policy," 16th Edition, Pearson, 2024

Dr. Hoffman is a former financial planner with the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo.

He has also received media recognition for his insight into the stock market. As Dr. Hoffman noted in a Boston Globe article:

"..investors who placed their entire savings in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index on the day before the 1987 stock market crash would have nearly tripled their money by now; not a bad return for poor market timing..."